Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 200 metre butterfly

Women's 200 metre butterfly at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 8, 1973
Competitors	27 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:13.766 WR
Medalists
Rosemarie Kother    East Germany   Roswitha Beier    East Germany   Lynn Colella    United States
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The women's 200 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 8.

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	Karen Moe (USA)	2:15.57	Munich, West Germany	4 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Time	Record
8 September	Heat	Nina MacInnis	United States	2:23.870	CR
8 September	Heat	Sandra Yost	Australia	2:21.825	CR
8 September	Heat	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:18.876	CR
8 September	Heat	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:15.455	WR
8 September	Final	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:13.766	WR

27 swimmers participated in 4 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	-	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:15.455	Q, WR
2	3	-	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:18.876	Q, CR
3	3	-	Lynn Colella	United States	2:20.363	Q
4	2	-	Sandra Yost	Australia	2:21.825	Q, CR
5	4	-	José Damen	Netherlands	2:23.604	Q
6	1	-	Nina MacInnis	United States	2:23.870	Q, CR
7	4	-	Uta Schütz	West Germany	2:24.537	Q
8	1	-	Yolanda Aggenbach	Netherlands	2:24.595	Q
9	2	-	Aleksandra Meerzon	Soviet Union	2:24.791
10	3	-	Patti Stenhouse	Canada	2:25.304
11	3	-	Gail Neall	Australia	2:25.818
12	2	-	Anca Groza	Romania	2:27.220
13	1	-	Nataliya Popova	Soviet Union	2:27.269
14	2	-	Gunilla Andersson	Sweden	2:28.030
15	3	-	E. Majnaric	Yugoslavia	2:28.580
16	2	-	Vera Faitlova	Czechoslovakia	2:29.727
17	1	-	M. Saavedra	Colombia	2:29.835
18	4	-	M. Corsi	Italy	2:29.955
19	1	-	Ileana Morales	Venezuela	2:30.181
20	2	-	Roselina Angel	Colombia	2:30.884
21	2	-	Gisela Cerezo	Venezuela	2:30.977
22	1	-	Aurora Chamorro	Spain	2:32.436
23	4	-	Jennifer McHugh	Canada	2:32.903
24	3	-	María Mock	Puerto Rico	2:37.098
25	3	-	A. Valentini	Italy	2:38.930
26	4	-	K. Tevajarvi	Finland	-	DNS / DQ
27	4	-	Mayumi Aoki	Japan	-	DNS / DQ

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Rosemarie Kother	East Germany	2:13.766	WR
	5	Roswitha Beier	East Germany	2:16.777
	3	Lynn Colella	United States	2:19.535
4	2	José Damen	Netherlands	2:21.964
5	6	Sandra Yost	Australia	2:22.323
6	7	Nina MacInnis	United States	2:22.570
7	1	Uta Schütz	West Germany	2:23.508
8	8	Yolanda Aggenbach	Netherlands	2:25.689